Re: what's the exactly newsgroup url of python-list?

Ben Finney wrote: > You may be confused. > > news:comp.lang.python> is a URL to a Usenet newsgroup, as > evidenced by the 'news:' schema part. If your web browser is > configured properly to invoke a newsreader (such as Thunderbird) for > 'news:' URLs, your newsrreader will then attempt to get th

Re: signals (again)

How does that help? I interpret "use asynchronous calls" to mean "use fcntl to set an FN_NOTIFY on the directory in order to be alerted when something needs to be done." But the method of doing that which I outlined above has a critical section in which the incoming signal will not be noticed.

Re: Pre-PEP Proposal: Codetags

Micah Elliott wrote: > I also have this living as a wiki > if people would like to add comments there. I might try to capture there > feedback from this group anyway. First try at a PEP -- thanks for any > feedback! I think you somewhat misunderstood the purpos

Unicode regular expressions -- buggy?

I don't think the python regular expression module correctly handles combining marks; it gives inconsistent results between equivalent forms of some regular expressions: >>> sys.version '2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]' >>>re.match('\w',unicodedata.normalize('NFD

Re: Python supports LSP, does it?

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:19:19 +0100 phil hunt wrote: > According to Wikipedia, the Liskov substitution principle is: > > Let q(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then > q(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T > > To me, this is nonsense. Under

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